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The inspector guy came by today. He checked everything, took pictures of the installation, said he knew about the hard drive issue, I showed him my RC Helicopters, and he left. Took about 15 minutes, total.

Scott

I think it's good that dish and DirecTV both appear to go out and check installations. Its the easiest way to make sure the installers aren't short cutting and screwing customers, because most customers won't know if something is wrong with the way a system is installed, unless or until something breaks.

Does a Dish install (free dish mover) include running the 2 cables from the dish to the inside wiring panel? Or should I run them? I have a good spot facing SW on my chimney, nut not sure how they'd go through the wall. Do they typically run the cables directly through the chimney wall, or down the rood and through a lower exterior wall? All my cables are prewired to correct locations once at the panel.

Are their installers covered by insurance if they happen to break any roof tiles? (those rounded orange clay tiles, not meant for anyone heavier than 250#), I believe they'll need to walk on the roof.

Had the hopper and Joey installed yesterday. Switched from Directv. Installer was a bit late, Took down Directv dish put new one up, Was here for about 3 hours what took the most time was the downloads to the Hopper took a long time and he called somebody once to get the download going about halfway through. He said this was the third one he had done. Was checking out the apps and the hopper kinda locked up. So he turned it off and back on to get back to live tv. Asked him some questions about PIP and a couple other things, he didn`t know the answers. He said Dish really did not give them a lot of training on all the features and he needed to put one in his own home so he could figure it out. Slingbox installed didn`t work till a powercycle this morning. Everything works great , Joey works perfect. Maybe it`s me but the audio seems much better than Directv. The pic seems slightly softer not very much but sharper than Directv. Nice system

I asked dish support today to send me s206, but they wouldn't do it. I asked them to end me a new hopper, but they wouldn't do it. All they said was that engineering knows about the problem and I have to wait for engineering to release a new version.

Everything would have been super smooth, except the tech put a satellite 61.5 cable into one input on the node. So, one hopper downloaded perfectly and the other one only sat at the download screen for hours saying to please wait.

So, just FYI, the box currently doesn't throw a message if the bird it needs for the download aren't present. It will just sit there looking like it's working but doing nothing.

Eventually the installer, who actually was awesome, got the idea to switch some feeds into the node and everything came up great. Now the second (61.5) dish on my house isn't hooked to anything.

Love the picture, the speed, the connectivity... This system is aces as far as I'm concerned.

Everything would have been super smooth, except the tech put a satellite 61.5 cable into one input on the node. So, one hopper downloaded perfectly and the other one only sat at the download screen for hours saying to please wait.

So, just FYI, the box currently doesn't throw a message if the bird it needs for the download aren't present. It will just sit there looking like it's working but doing nothing.

Eventually the installer, who actually was awesome, got the idea to switch some feeds into the node and everything came up great. Now the second (61.5) dish on my house isn't hooked to anything.

Love the picture, the speed, the connectivity... This system is aces as far as I'm concerned.

I don't get it. Lets clarify: you got Duo Node for two H2k, both outputs from the node connected to to each H2k. The Duo Node has three inputs from DPP switch or DPP LNBF.For EA H2k FW spooling from 61.5W tp 29.Should works OK for both DVRs with one shared 61.5W sat...Perhaps he didn't fulfill the DPP requirement for any Duo Node input ?

Does a Dish install (free dish mover) include running the 2 cables from the dish to the inside wiring panel? Or should I run them? I have a good spot facing SW on my chimney, nut not sure how they'd go through the wall.

Around here they will not mount to a chimney. YMMV.The installer will run all necessary cabling.

I don't get it. Lets clarify: you got Duo Node for two H2k, both outputs from the node connected to to each H2k. The Duo Node has three inputs from DPP switch or DPP LNBF.For EA H2k FW spooling from 61.5W tp 29.Should works OK for both DVRs with one shared 61.5W sat...Perhaps he didn't fulfill the DPP requirement for any Duo Node input ?

Lacking in technical knowledge, here's what I saw. The duo nodes require a 3 satellite line input configuration. Two of the lines he plugged in were from the right dish and one was from the wrong dish.

Apparently, that was good enough to operate one hopper, but not both.

Running a switch check, hopper #2 failed when looking for all the satellites until those outside cables were switched.

Once all 3 lines came from the right dish, we had no problem completing the setup.

I replaced two 622s with a Hopper and one Joey. So far so good. Before I got home from work, the installer was checking out my wire room. Its like looking into the sun sometimes. My wife pulled him away from there and had him get re-oriented. Then I got home and we worked though the best setup. It was a bit tricky because of my separate Dish for 129. No worries though - under 3 hours total, with some minor wire work.

I am a little bummed about loosing a couple features. For example, no PIP or Caller ID on the Joey. Besides that, it looks like everything else is better.

Thanks! My wife and I swear we looked everywhere - but there it was. And it works too!

FYI for other commenters - the external hard drive does not save position, so if you don't watch an entire show you have to fast forward to find your location. Not too annoying, but for shows that we pause and come back to later it's enough trouble that we want to restore. Primarily because these were shows from the old 722 - not something we do on a regular basis.

I had all sorts of fun with my 2 Hopper / 1 Joey installation today. The installer arrived at 7:55am and just finished some 6 hours and 40 minutes later.

It stated off badly as his work order was written up as a 1 Hopper / 2 Joey installation. When he called into Dish to have the order corrected, they told him that it was not possible to order 2 Hoppers & 1 Joey. Go figure. He handed his phone to me and I spent the next 25 minutes attempting to persuade the CSR that I was promised and had ordered 2 Hoppers and 1 Joey. The CSR finally pulled up a copy of my chat transcript and was able to confirm that I did indeed order 2 Hoppers and 1 Joey. It took them another 15 minutes to figure out how to correct this on their new system. They ended up having to change the order to 2 Hoppers and 2 Joeys, with the installer un-installing the second Joey after its activation. It was pretty frustrating to have to convince them that I had ordered a 2H/1J system. I had PM'd and emailed 2 DIRT team members as well as chatted online with a Dish CSR before placing the order. None mentioned that there was any problem with ordering 2 Hoppers and 1 Joey. The installer said that these issues come up a lot at the time of installation. There is really no excuse for this. The sales order should have exactly matched what I had ordered. I'm just glad that I placed the order via online chat, so that there was a "paper trail".

Next issue was that the installer did not have a Duo Node in his truck. He went back to his office and picked up a Duo Node. On with the install...

The installer decided it would be easiest to remove my current dishes and replace them with a single DishHD 3 LNB dish. Installation of the dishes and Duo Node went pretty smoothly.

Now onto the Hopper installations. He connected the first Hopper and it started its usual Check Switch and software download routine. He then proceeded with installation of the second Hopper while the first was downloading. The second Hopper downloaded its software and was ready for activation in about 20 minutes. The first however was still on the download screen after 45 minutes. He restarted it, reset factory defaults and tried again. Same result, it was still hung after another 25 minutes. He decided that there may be an issue with the receiver and swapped it with another Hopper that he had in his truck. Same result with the next receiver. He then decided to recheck all of the cabling and detected what appeared to him to be a bad LNB. He replaced the LNB, but the problem remained. On a whim, he disconnected the ground wire from the Duo Node. After doing so, the cabling and LNBs checked out fine. With the ground wire disconnected, the 2nd Hopper downloaded its software in about 17 minutes.

Before installing the Joey(s), the Hoppers had to be added to the account and activated. Apparently Dish is having some difficulty migrating to a new activation system and the new system was not working consistently when he called in. It took about 90 minutes before Dish had the receivers activated.

The installer isn't really to be blamed for any of these issues. Most of it (except for possibly the ground wire weirdness) was out of his control. Dish probably could have picked a better time to deploy a new activation system than during the Hopper/Joey roll-out.

After a lot of undue stress and a lot of waiting for software downloads and receiver activations, all appears to be working. Now I am off to a very late start to my work day. I'll have to wait until tonight to give the system a good going over.

Now, when you accidentally found ground issue with your home power lines (it's pretty clear for me: two h2k in different room on different phases and common connection - LNBF), I wouldn't hesitate to call for professional electrician to investigate the problem and fix it. Before something tragic not happened !

Perhaps the grounding issue is the reason for many h/j installs when FW download taking more then 20 min !
Time to correct installation procedure written by dish.

I have one Hopper with two Joeys. I am updating to two Hoppers with three Joeys. With only one Hopper you are limited to three channels- prime time will use one if you are recording two other programs you can not watch anything else. That is why you need the second hopper. With let everyone know how that works Wednesday night.

Directv customer June 2014-on Dish customer since April 2012-June 2014, DirecTV customer before that - 1/1/1998 to Dec 2011, before merger with DirecTV-USSB 1994-1998. Equipment one Genie, 3 mini Genies, One HD DVR.

I went from a 722k and 211 to 1H/1J. I ordered a modulator to feed the Hopper to the third TV (SD), but it's not here yet.

The install took about 2.5 hours. It could've been less, but the installer insisted on replacing my 1000+ with a 1000.2. I don't need to see 118 anymore, and he believed the 1000.2 to be more reliable, so I didn't object. The Hopper took 45 minutes or so to do all of it's updating. And the poor tech was on hold for 10+ minutes trying to activate the receivers. He did a great job though: he knew the system, wiring was clean, and had all of the right equipment with him.

Tech is here...went into my attic and modified some things and he, so far, did not run any additional lines.
Software download took less than 20 minutes on the hopper...receiver memory was just set up and it now says the hopper is starting up...
I'll keep you guys posted...